Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-MORT-I-ZA'TION, or A-MORT'IZE-MENT
A-MORT-I-ZA'TION, or A-MORT'IZE-MENT, n.
The act or right of alienating lands or tenements to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, as such alienations were mostly made to religious houses for superstitious uses. – Blackstone.
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